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Scenario B: The CIC receives an Application for Permanent Residence (APR) from the principal applicant on or after August 01, 2014, but the principal applicant applied for a nomination to a province or a territory prior to August 01, 2014

Age Lock-in Date: The age lock-in date is the date on which the CIC received the Application for Permanent Residence (APR) [Section 5.24 of OP 1]

The Impact: Officers can process a child as a dependent if, on the date on which the CIC received the Application for Permanent Residence (APR) from the principal applicant, the child is:

Under 22 years of age and single

Aged 22 years or above AND a fulltime student dependent on a parent or,

Aged 22 years or above and dependent on a parent because of a physical or mental condition

Officers would need to refer to the entire pre-amendment definition of a dependent child

Sample Scenario B

On September 01, 2014, the CIC receives an Application for Permanent Residence (APR) from a provincial nominee

The Application for Permanent Residence (APR) includes details of the applicant’s child who, at the time the CIC received the Application for Permanent Residence (APR), was:

Aged 23 years old

In a common-law relationship since the age of 20 years and,

Entering the final year of a four-year university program

The principal applicant had applied for a provincial nomination prior to August 01, 2014, hence:

A transitional provision applies and,

The officers would apply the pre-amendment definition of a dependent child

The officers process the child’s application as a Type B dependent because the age lock-in date is effective on the date the CIC received the principal applicant’s Application for Permanent Residence (APR) and on that date, the child was found to have been:

Depending substantially on the financial support of the parents since becoming a common-law partner and.

Continuously enrolled in and attending a post-secondary institution

Dependent children could benefit from a transitional provision at the Application for Permanent Residence (APR) stage by remaining unmarried and not entering into a common-law relationship, if these were requirements specified for meeting the pre-amendment definition